Medicare Part D: Payments and Contracts Between Pharmacies and Plan Sponsors That Are Vertically Integrated
What GAO Found The insurance plan sponsors that provide Medicare Part D drug coverage have increasingly become vertically integrated—that is, under common ownership—with pharmacy benefit managers and pharmacies. GAO found that, for four large Part D plan sponsors, the pharmacies they owned accounted for about 24 percent of the Part D drugs they provided to their enrollees (drug utilization) and about 28 percent of the total payments to pharmacies in 2023 (see figure). Payments included both r...
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Policy / Regulatory Changes signal via U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO): "Medicare Part D: Payments and Contracts Between Pharmacies and Plan Sponsors Tha…".
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[DRAFT — verify before any external use] U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports on policy / regulatory changes: What GAO Found The insurance plan sponsors that provide Medicare Part D drug coverage have increasingly become vertically integrated—that is, under common ownership—with pharmacy benefit managers and pharmacies. GAO foun…
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